CHARACTER FROM PIPES.
According to M. Watteville one cannot, tell much concerning a smoker’s character from the cigars or cigarettes he smokes; but his, pipe “speaks volumes.” M. Watteville has made a collection of pipes of all nations. The activity of a race, he says, is proportionate to. the length of the stem of the pipe which it smokes. The longer the stem the lazier are the people who smoke it, and, inversely, the hardest workers smoke the shortest pipes. Big pipe bowls denote generosity, small pipe bowls prove economy. M. Watteville has not taken into account the class of man who carries a pipe with a very large bowl and borrows tobacco.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3431, 24 January 1912, Page 8
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113CHARACTER FROM PIPES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3431, 24 January 1912, Page 8
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